who was the person started the tuskegee normal and industrial institute in alabama where black children could learn skills such as shoemaking and farming.

Booker T Washington

Explanation:

Booker T Washington was the person who started the tuskegee normal and industrial institute in alabama where black children could learn skills such as shoemaking and farming.

Booker T Washington born April 5, 1856-November 14,1915) was a African-American, educator, author, orator, leader in the African American community, a foremost black educator of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Born into slavery, Booker put himself through school and became a teacher after the civil war. He crusaded for educational opportunities for African Americans, because of his passion for the minorities he started the Tuskegee normal and industrial institute in Alabama where black children could learn skills which will enable them to function as a citizen and cater for themselves.

He was the first president and developer of Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute (now Tuskegee University)